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NAKHON RATCHASIMA : Government attempts to keep down fuel prices are not helping reduce the cost of farm products, vendors at a downtown fresh food market say.
Pattaradorn Limkraiwattana, a pork trader at Mae Kim Heng market in Nakhon Ratchasima municipality, said a government measure to freeze fuel prices in the transport sector has not helped bring down pork prices.
She said the price of pork sold at farms has only gone down 2 baht a kilogramme, not enough for pork traders at the market to reduce prices on all cuts of pork.
Traders can only reduce prices by 4 baht per kg on tenderloin and pork leg, Ms Pattaradorn said. She said pork at the market is still generally priced at between 140-150 baht per kg.
On May 14, the cabinet approved a proposal from the Energy Policy Administration Committee to freeze prices on fuel. Planned increases in the price of compressed natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas for the transport sector are to be put on hold for three months.
The cost of some vegetables are still going up, such as chilies, which have jumped from 40 baht per kg to 100 baht and radishes which have increased from 20 baht per kg to 35.
Although the prices of certain other vegetables have gone down such as cabbage from 50 to 30 baht per kg or kale from 50 baht to 35 baht, this has had nothing to do with the government's fuel freeze, according to Sompiang Wongprasert, another trader at the market.
Instead, this has resulted from the recent hot weather and an oversupply of vegetables which farmers want to sell quickly before they spoil.
Meanwhile, state enterprises under the Interior Ministry have announced measures to help reduce the high cost of living.
The Metropolitan Waterworks Authority and the Provincial Waterworks Authority are allowing people to pay water bills via instalments over the next three months from now until July.
The Metropolitan Electricity Authority and the Provincial Electricity Authority, meanwhile, will allow people to defer paying electricity bills due this month until the end of June.
Pattaradorn Limkraiwattana, a pork trader at Mae Kim Heng market in Nakhon Ratchasima municipality, said a government measure to freeze fuel prices in the transport sector has not helped bring down pork prices.
She said the price of pork sold at farms has only gone down 2 baht a kilogramme, not enough for pork traders at the market to reduce prices on all cuts of pork.
Traders can only reduce prices by 4 baht per kg on tenderloin and pork leg, Ms Pattaradorn said. She said pork at the market is still generally priced at between 140-150 baht per kg.
On May 14, the cabinet approved a proposal from the Energy Policy Administration Committee to freeze prices on fuel. Planned increases in the price of compressed natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas for the transport sector are to be put on hold for three months.
The cost of some vegetables are still going up, such as chilies, which have jumped from 40 baht per kg to 100 baht and radishes which have increased from 20 baht per kg to 35.
Although the prices of certain other vegetables have gone down such as cabbage from 50 to 30 baht per kg or kale from 50 baht to 35 baht, this has had nothing to do with the government's fuel freeze, according to Sompiang Wongprasert, another trader at the market.
Instead, this has resulted from the recent hot weather and an oversupply of vegetables which farmers want to sell quickly before they spoil.
Meanwhile, state enterprises under the Interior Ministry have announced measures to help reduce the high cost of living.
The Metropolitan Waterworks Authority and the Provincial Waterworks Authority are allowing people to pay water bills via instalments over the next three months from now until July.
The Metropolitan Electricity Authority and the Provincial Electricity Authority, meanwhile, will allow people to defer paying electricity bills due this month until the end of June.
